If Catania had a port, Palermo would be dead.
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With everything Messina has the port, but for beautiful Palermo it is always just an orchard.
Messina is clever, Palermo is pompous; Messina is rich, Palermo is greedy.
Port Adelaide
It is the great City of Port Adelaide
Where heroes are born and legends are made
In the Australian Football League they have their own football team
For to play for Port Adelaide many Port teens do dream.
A place where Indigenous and white Australia meet
And different races live on every street
The Indigenous tribes had their corroborees long ago
By the trees near the banks where the Port waters flow.
Many nineteenth century buildings in Port Adelaide remain
Which one does suppose goes in part to explain
Why so many visitors come to that Town
Port's history is far more than football renown.
The Port river dolphins are famed far and wide
One can see them surface from the harbour side
A tourist attraction and it would be fair to say
That seeing them has made many a vistor's day.
Where the cultures meet Indigenous and European
Port Adelaide a Town where all races are seen
When in South Australia I feel at home there
Few Towns with Port Adelaide can hope to compare.
poem by Francis Duggan
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Eavan's Grandma
She feared the women
at the port when her
husband's ship docked
there the port.
She went to the port
to see her husband
each time he arrived
I like the man
and the wife.
'Aren't they
the same kind of girls
anyway? ' he thinks,
she doesn't know it.
(Oct.5,1997)
poem by Sangnam Nam
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USS Zydecoldsmobile
You can feel the horses under the hood
Through thick and thin pull us out of the wood
She's the smoothest ride, yeah, you'll ever feel
She's the Delta slide of automobiles
Double clutchin' on the backseat
I hear you, yeah, with your main squeeze
Playing triple row accordian fills
In the USS ZydecOldsmobile
Port of Call Opelousas
Port of Call Lawtell
Port of Call Frilot Cove
In the USS ZydecOldsmobile
Mardi Gras run block the road
Park the car and join the show
Get up on the trunk and dance at will
Aboard the USS ZydecOldsmobile
Port of Call Opelousas
Port of Call Lawtell
Port of Call Frilot Cove
In the USS ZydecOldsmobile
Yeah, Spirit moves through everyone
We have faith and we have fun
God bless the turning wheel
Of my USS ZydecOldsmobile
Port of Call Opelousas
Port of Call Lawtell
Port of Call Frilot Cove
In the USS ZydecOldsmobile
Come ride with me in my ZydecOldsmobile
Double clutchin' with me in my ZydecOldsmobile
Hip shakin' with me in my ZydecOldsmobile
Come ride with me in my ZydecOldsmobile
song performed by by Jimmy Buffett
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Palermo is a tolerant man, whoever goes, goes and whoever comes, comes.
See Palermo and enjoy it, see Naples then die.
The bands of Palermo and the privileges of Messina.
How much is prestige worth, not as much as Palermo, if you take away the saints.
Palermo for its illustrious writers and Messina for its harbor.
Whoever goes to Palermo and doesn't see Monreale, goes there a jackass and returns a fool.
If Messina had gardens Palermo would be a bunch of poor country houses.
Otto Di Catania
1:caris pettatori
2:cari spettatori
3:ladies and gentlemen
1:amitshi del variete
2:amici del varieta'
3:cabaret lovers
1:caror lissimo publiku
2:carissimo pubblico
3:distinguished audience
4:calorosissimo pubblico [I find this more correct -jk]
1:buanas sera gia stella matto
2:buona sera ?????????
3:good evening
1:della pina par ti del program
2:della prima parte del programma
3:of the first part of our program
1:venut di retta mente vel cairo
2:venuta direttamente dal Cairo
3:coming directly from Cairo
1:lafamosissiva
2:la famosissima
3:the famous
1:mo lita del sudan
2:?molita? del Sudan
3:^^^^^^^^ not an italian word...
3:song of Sudan
1:una tanza trishi del vento
2:una danza triste del vento
3:a sad dance of the wind
4:una danzatrice del ventre(?)
1:akompanjato come sempre
2:accompagnato come sempre
3:accompained as usual
1:bella no orchestra paul sileste
2:dalla nostra orchestra Paul ?Sileste?
3:by our orchestra, Paul Sileste
1:rego maestro, allee
2:prego maestro, vada
3:please maestro, go
1:suno otto, suno otto di catania
2:sono Otto, sono Otto di Catania
3:I am Otto, I am Otto from Catania
1:suno rivatto roma ventianiva
2:son arrivato a Roma vent'anni fa
3:I came to Rome 20 years ago
1:suno gui, perriveri
2:sono qui per vivere
3:I am here to live
1:perriveri la vita pervanjare
2:per vivere la vita, per viaggiare
3:to live my live, to travel
1:perrosso pugerivijano
2:??????????????
1:va tutti gesto gjorno
2:da tutti questo giorno
3:from everybody this day
1:vanimmintare tutje mitshi mej
2:vado ad invitare tutti gli amici miei
3:I am going to invite all my friends
1:me celeprare la miavita
2:per celebrare la mia vita
3:to celebrate my life
1:a mitshi grazie
2:amici grazie
3:thanks, my friends
1:grazie pervenire
2:grazie per essere venuti
3:thanks for coming
4:grazie per venire [this is more close what I hear -jk]
1:grazie peran dare commee alla cafe romana
2:grazie per essere andati con me al caffe romano
3:thanks for going with me to the roman cafe'
4:grazie per andare come ???
1:la vienovetta ermoltos petshale
2:?????????????? e' molto speciale
3: is very special
1:commerciallo, comlutjano
2:???????????????????????????
1:comverane la sirene
2:????????? le sirene
3: the sirens
1:grazie pervenire
2:grazie per esser venuti
3:thanks for coming
4:grazie per venire [this is more close what I hear -jk]
1:el mieno otta di catania
2:????????? Otto di Catania
1:suna rivatto me intianiva
2:sono arrivato di mia iniziativa
3:I came by myself
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song performed by by Yello
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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Otto Di Catania
1:caris pettatori
2:cari spettatori
3:ladies and gentlemen
1:amitshi del variete
2:amici del varieta'
3:cabaret lovers
1:caror lissimo publiku
2:carissimo pubblico
3:distinguished audience
4:calorosissimo pubblico [I find this more correct -jk]
1:buanas sera gia stella matto
2:buona sera ?????????
3:good evening
1:della pina par ti del program
2:della prima parte del programma
3:of the first part of our program
1:venut di retta mente vel cairo
2:venuta direttamente dal Cairo
3:coming directly from Cairo
1:lafamosissiva
2:la famosissima
3:the famous
1:mo lita del sudan
2:?molita? del Sudan
3:^^^^^^^^ not an italian word...
3:song of Sudan
1:una tanza trishi del vento
2:una danza triste del vento
3:a sad dance of the wind
4:una danzatrice del ventre(?)
1:akompanjato come sempre
2:accompagnato come sempre
3:accompained as usual
1:bella no orchestra paul sileste
2:dalla nostra orchestra Paul ?Sileste?
3:by our orchestra, Paul Sileste
1:rego maestro, allee
2:prego maestro, vada
3:please maestro, go
1:suno otto, suno otto di catania
2:sono Otto, sono Otto di Catania
3:I am Otto, I am Otto from Catania
1:suno rivatto roma ventianiva
2:son arrivato a Roma vent'anni fa
3:I came to Rome 20 years ago
1:suno gui, perriveri
2:sono qui per vivere
3:I am here to live
1:perriveri la vita pervanjare
2:per vivere la vita, per viaggiare
3:to live my live, to travel
1:perrosso pugerivijano
2:??????????????
1:va tutti gesto gjorno
2:da tutti questo giorno
3:from everybody this day
1:vanimmintare tutje mitshi mej
2:vado ad invitare tutti gli amici miei
3:I am going to invite all my friends
1:me celeprare la miavita
2:per celebrare la mia vita
3:to celebrate my life
1:a mitshi grazie
2:amici grazie
3:thanks, my friends
1:grazie pervenire
2:grazie per essere venuti
3:thanks for coming
4:grazie per venire [this is more close what I hear -jk]
1:grazie peran dare commee alla cafe romana
2:grazie per essere andati con me al caffe romano
3:thanks for going with me to the roman cafe'
4:grazie per andare come ???
1:la vienovetta ermoltos petshale
2:?????????????? e' molto speciale
3: is very special
1:commerciallo, comlutjano
2:???????????????????????????
1:comverane la sirene
2:????????? le sirene
3: the sirens
1:grazie pervenire
2:grazie per esser venuti
3:thanks for coming
4:grazie per venire [this is more close what I hear -jk]
1:el mieno otta di catania
2:????????? Otto di Catania
1:suna rivatto me intianiva
2:sono arrivato di mia iniziativa
3:I came by myself
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song performed by by Yello
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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If you want to experience the pains of hell, spend winter in Messina and summer in Palermo.
Port Burwell
About a quarter of a century ago, when Port Burwell was a
busy, thriving place, several friends accompanied me to
the port to attend a concert, we all being specially invited.
It was in the winter, and there had been a race on the
ice, in which the Port Burwell horse took the lead. We
gave a local piece of some length, but only retain now a
few lines. The people at the concert were highly pleased
with the effusion.
In winter time, who here resort
To pay a visit to your famous port,
They must be clad in fur well,
For it blows cold at Burwell.
But when you wish to trot your horse
You make lake Erie your race course,
And we believe at every heat
All other horses you do beat.
poem by James McIntyre
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
quote by William Gibson
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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To Take A View
We are like 'Papa-Doc' and 'Baby-Doc',
And in the public toilet to take a view;
But my love is behind the light that shines on us,
And i will see you through this dream.
We are like the stars of the skies and the sand of the seas!
And like to mourn and to wep for the dead around us;
Port-au-Prince, Port-au-Prince!
How the earth crashed to kill you all,
But your survivors will live on to tell this story one day;
And like the invisible man behind you and i.
I am following to your bedroom to take a view,
Because that's where your love is;
And like the art of the perfumer from the 'Westland to Broadway',
For i want make an artistic design of this love.
Seek for the missing ones in the name of the earthquakes!
For your cries met up to the world for help;
And i am worried because of the glory of your beauty.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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At C?ccamu there are the boors at Termini the brunette slaves; and at Palermo long-stemmed roses, beautiful on the outside and rotten on the inside.